Ah yes, that's right. They defretted their guitars and started sliding around...

Now I remembered what I was thinking about - ABSTRUSE. He's really into serialism, aleatoric sounds (computer-generated et c), and so forth. Check out my re3views + interview with the guy on the main page, even if you don't like the music he has a lot of interesting ideas and techniques. Made up his on scale, among other things.

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Re: Serialism

Ron Jarzombek (Spastik Ink, Blotted Science) uses some serialism and 12-tone techniques in his compositon, or at least something similar - see his outliles at his website : http://www.ronjarzombek.com/

I actually use a heavily modified version of "serialism" to come up with a lot of riffs and chord progressions - here's a brief expalnation from my blog/website:

Word/Phrase Composition TechniqueDimaension X is also known to have created his own method of music composition, using techniques similar to serialism or the twelve-tone technique. Known as "Word/Phrase Composition", notes or chord progressions are "randomly" created from words and phrases. Each letter of the alphabet corresponds to a musical note, octave root, or rest/space/sustain. The notes are used as a "starting point", and are not necessarily the final choices for chord progressions or basslines/riffs.The following chart outlines the basic alphabetic letter/note relationship:A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZA B C D E F G A - A B C D E F G A - A B C D E F G A(the 2nd A would be the higher octave root note, the dash " - " would be no note, therefore a rest or sustain of the former note) The name "Lanciani" would create the following note choices:L A N C I A N IC A E C - A E -Therefore, a chord progression of C, Am7, Em, C may be used in a song, or perhaps the notes C,A,E,C, (rest), A, E (rest) would be used as a bassline for a solo section. The actual use is entirely up to the composer, along with the music style. The notes/chords are merely meant to be used as a "jump-start" to get the creative "juices" flowing. The rest is up to the individuality of the composer.

Many of the albums in the discography were composed in this method, including "Bryson's Universe", "Deus Fetor Pt.2", and most of "Leprosia Doom".

I actually use a heavily modified version of "serialism" to come up with a lot of riffs and chord progressions - here's a brief expalnation from my blog/website:

Word/Phrase Composition TechniqueDimaension X is also known to have created his own method of music composition, using techniques similar to serialism or the twelve-tone technique. Known as "Word/Phrase Composition", notes or chord progressions are "randomly" created from words and phrases. Each letter of the alphabet corresponds to a musical note, octave root, or rest/space/sustain. The notes are used as a "starting point", and are not necessarily the final choices for chord progressions or basslines/riffs.The following chart outlines the basic alphabetic letter/note relationship:A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZA B C D E F G A - A B C D E F G A - A B C D E F G A(the 2nd A would be the higher octave root note, the dash " - " would be no note, therefore a rest or sustain of the former note) The name "Lanciani" would create the following note choices:L A N C I A N IC A E C - A E -Therefore, a chord progression of C, Am7, Em, C may be used in a song, or perhaps the notes C,A,E,C, (rest), A, E (rest) would be used as a bassline for a solo section. The actual use is entirely up to the composer, along with the music style. The notes/chords are merely meant to be used as a "jump-start" to get the creative "juices" flowing. The rest is up to the individuality of the composer.

Many of the albums in the discography were composed in this method, including "Bryson's Universe", "Deus Fetor Pt.2", and most of "Leprosia Doom".

Quite interesting !How do you deal with #/b ? Is your system dependent of tonality ?

I recently had a interest in how to transcribe words in music (I only tried Morse code so far). I heard about Ravel doing so, but I don't know what system he used.

Hello there, I just bumped into this interesting thread and I wonder what does serialism mean? Is it another name for atonal music, a continuous sequence providing a series 12 notes in a row or is it something more? I didn't even know this kind of method existed to be honest!

October 2nd, 2013, 3:21 am

BenDan

Joined: October 2nd, 2007, 12:49 amPosts: 63Location: French Far West

Re: Serialism

From my understanding, that's it basically.The main concern is the row. 12 tones in whatever order. You can't repeat a note, you have to use the 11 others before. But you can change the order in some ways : Retrograde, Inversion, Retrograde-Inversion.

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